Songwriter, composer, and music teacher Frank Horvat joined us to talk about scales, the different kinds and colours of chords, and using chords as a palette for your songwriting.

We covered:

* Intervals (2 notes) and triads (chords with 3 notes)

* Major and minor triads and their different tonal colours

* The hardly-ever-used diminished (or seven) chord

* The Nashville chord numbering system

* The tonic (I) and dominant (V) chord relationship

* A typical blues chord progression (I-IV-I-V-IV-I)

* Chord extensions (7th’s and 9th’s)

* Writing from the head vs. the heart

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